France
People of this nationality
Marion Vernoux
b. 1966
film director
Sébastien Hinault
b. 1974
sport cyclist
Francis Kramarz
b. 1958
economist
Olivier Peslier
b. 1973
jockey
Georges Longy
1868 – 1930
musician
Bon-Claude Cahier de Gerville
1751 – 1796
politician
Banfa Sylla
b. 1989
association football player
Jean-Marie Clairet
b. 1966
racing driver
Albert Auguste Gicquel des Touches
1818 – 1901
Officer of the French Navy
Jacques Martial
1955 – 2025
politician
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1932 – 2007
physicist
Laurent Touil-Tartour
b. 1971
film director
Jean-Louis Brousse-Desfaucherets
1742 – 1808
playwright
Charles Sauria
1812 – 1893
chemist
Catherine Des Roches
1542 – 1587
writer
Louise Bourgeois Boursier
1563 – 1636
midwife
Marcel Haegelen
1896 – 1950
military personnel
Angélique Arnaud
1797 – 1884
novelist
Jean-Yves Naouri
b. 1959
businessperson
Gisèle Grandpré
1912 – 2002
film actor
François Fratellini
1879 – 1951
circus performer
Berthe de Puybusque
1848 – 1926
poet
Marin de la Vallée
1560 – 1655
architect
Ary Scheffer
1795 – 1858
painter
Erwan Berthou
1861 – 1933
poet
Claude Gaillard
b. 1944
politician
Edmond Marie Petitjean
1844 – 1925
painter
Louis Pauteux
1883 – 1931
marathon runner
Elie de Carvalho
b. 1994
sport cyclist
Nora Cornolle
b. 1989
mixed martial arts fighter
Jan Monchaux
b. 1978
engineer
Stéphane Dujarric
b. 1965
journalist
Max Méreaux
b. 1946
composer
Pierre-Noël-Joseph Foucart
1830 – 1889
Catholic priest
Charles Marie de La Condamine
1701 – 1774
mathematician
Paul Thellier
1899 – 1944
politician
Jim Sévellec
1897 – 1971
painter
Georges Benrekassa
1932 – 2026
historian
Crawford Palmer
b. 1970
basketball player
Mamadou Diakité
b. 1985
association football player
Françoise Marie de Bourbon
1677 – 1749
aristocrat
Madeleine of Savoy
lady-in-waiting
Arnaud Nordin
b. 1998
association football player
Wilfried Kanga
b. 1998
association football player
André Rolland de Renéville
1903 – 1962
poet
Guy de Téramond
1869 – 1957
poet
Saint Bertold
1083 – 1198
friar
Barthélémy Victor Rantonnet
1797 – 1871
horticulturist
Bertrand Marie de Lesseps
1875 – 1918
fencer
Claire Davinroy
1897 – 1973
politician
Christian Jouanin
1925 – 2014
ornithologist
Roger-Philippe Menu
1948 – 2013
swimmer
Patrick Girard
b. 1964
engineer
Élisabeth Toutut-Picard
b. 1954
politician
Adam de Givenchi
1220 – 1270
priest
Raymond Cayol
1917 – 1997
politician
Inessa Armand
1874 – 1920
revolutionary
Paul Lecreux
1826 – 1894
sculptor
Stéphane Lefebvre
b. 1992
racing automobile driver
Anne Marie Staub
1914 – 2012
biochemist
Benoît Faure
1899 – 1980
sport cyclist
Antoine Aveline
1691 – 1743
printmaker
Jean Saint-Fort Paillard
1913 – 1990
dressage rider
Louis Guillaume Le Monnier
1717 – 1799
physicist
Antoine Court de Gébelin
1725 – 1784
writer
Ophélie Winter
b. 1974
actor
Louise Contat
1760 – 1813
actor
Robert Darène
1914 – 2016
film director
Louis Calaferte
1928 – 1994
writer
Dominique Valera
b. 1947
actor
Arthur Germain
b. 2001
swimmer
Marie-Hélène Lentini
b. 1950
actor
Gérard Thurnauer
1926 – 2014
architect
Pierre Gouthière
1732 – 1813
brazier
Georges Calzant
1897 – 1962
journalist
Armand Gatti
1924 – 2017
film director
Benjamin Fillon
1819 – 1881
anthropologist
Gustave Mesureur
1847 – 1925
politician
Paul Cotteret
1896 – 1983
cinematographer
François Hadji-Lazaro
1956 – 2023
singer
Louis Sanmarco
1912 – 2009
colonial administrator
Pierre Luquet
b. 1975
canoeist
Charlotte de Rohan
1737 – 1760
aristocrat
Nancy Peña
b. 1979
comics artist
Elise Takosi
b. 1988
athlete
Christian Bordé
1943 – 2023
physicist
Octavie Guichard
1719 – 1804
linguist
George Henri Anne-Marie Victor de Villebois-Mareuil
1847 – 1900
military personnel
Pola Illéry
1909 – 1993
actor
Joseph Goubert
b. 1908
field hockey player
Lionel Mathis
b. 1981
association football player
Isabelle Dhordain
1959 – 2021
journalist
Stéphane Gsell
1864 – 1932
anthropologist
Georges Noradounguian
b. 1930
chess player
André Prunet-Foch
1914 – 2017
diplomat
Michel Tournier
1924 – 2016
writer
Sylvie Weil
b. 1942
writer
Christophe Épalle
b. 1969
hammer thrower
Eugenia Errázuriz
1860 – 1951
socialite
L'Inconnue de la Seine
1865 – 1885